While touring in 2011, Patton said that there were "no plans for a new recording".

"It's a tired old script," he told Rolling Stone at the time. "Band splits up, gets hard up for cash, goes on tour and records a s**tty record. We don't want to be part of that kind of history."

Last year, Patton told Believer that their reunion "sort of petered out", and that the group is "maybe a little too conscious... [of the] lineage of bands that maybe did some nice things and then needed the cash and got back together and basically just sprayed diarrhoea over their entire body of work".